This Sunday, November 1, clocks fell back an hour. Most people will get through it with a slightly off Monday and forget about it by midweek. In a household with ADHD, a shift in the sleep schedule can throw off the whole week. This is the last post in our ADHD Awareness Month series. We saved sleep for the end because it affects nearly everything we’ve written about this past month, from focus in the classroom to adults who spent years running on too little rest. Why ADHD an

Sometimes it happens in a pediatrician’s office. A parent sits through their child’s ADHD evaluation, hears the questions about losing things and drifting off while someone is talking, and thinks, “That’s me.” Other adults get there after a promotion or a new baby takes away the structure that used to hold everything together. This is week three of our ADHD Awareness Month series. Last week we looked at ADHD at school and at home, and this week is for the grown-ups. There are

The first grading period in Austin ISD ended October 8, and report cards have gone out by email and on the parent portal. Parent-teacher conferences are on the calendar. For a lot of families, the teacher comments sound familiar: “Has trouble staying on task.” “Missing assignments.” “Capable of more.” If you heard some version of this last spring and hoped a new year would change things, this can be a discouraging week. This is week two of our ADHD Awareness Month series. Las

October is ADHD Awareness Month. This year’s theme, chosen by the coalition of CHADD, ADDA, and the ADHD Coaches Organization, is “A Community of Support.” It’s a good fit for how we think about ADHD here at Austin Biofeedback & Neurofeedback Center. Rarely does someone with ADHD get through it on their own, and the people around them can only help if they understand what they’re seeing. So for the next four weeks we’re writing about ADHD, starting with a discussion of what i

You used to be the person who kept the whole project timeline in your head and could write a report in one pass. Now someone asks you a question in a meeting (one you know the answer to) and you can feel it right there at the edge of your memory, but it won’t come. By the time it does, the conversation has moved on. You re-read emails more than once, and you end the workday worn out from tasks that never used to make you feel so exhausted. Many people describe this experience

Ask five neurofeedback clinics what a session looks like and you might get five different answers. Some of that is just style. But part of it comes down to something more basic: different concerns respond to different kinds of training, and running everyone through just one kind of equipment or pre-made protocols misses that. At Austin Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Center, we work with several different approaches and have extensive experience with all of them. That range mat

If you've read any back-to-school advice this week, you've probably seen the same tip repeated: get bedtimes and wake-up times back on schedule before the first day, not the night before. Good advice, but most of those articles skip over why it actually works. Knowing what day school starts and being physically ready for it are two different things.

Every year in early August, our phone starts ringing with a version of the same question. School starts in two weeks. Can you fix my child’s focus before then? We understand the question completely. Last spring was hard. The homework battles, the notes from teachers. The bright kid who could not seem to get out of their own way. Nobody wants to walk back into that. So here is the honest answer, the one we would want if it were our own child. No, brain training cannot rewire a

If you have been following the 2026 World Cup, you know that some of the most nerve-wracking moments come down to penalty shootouts. A single kick, a roaring crowd, and enormous pressure resting on one player's ability to stay calm and focused. Recently, The Athletic reported that the U.S. Men's National Team has been using brain-based technology to help players prepare for exactly these high-pressure moments. According to the reporting, the team worked with a technology comp

When parents think about summer, they usually imagine relief. The school stress eases up. The schedule opens up. There are fewer demands, fewer battles over homework, and hopefully a little more breathing room for everyone in the family. And sometimes that is exactly what happens. But every year at Austin Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Center, we also see another side of summer that catches many parents off guard. Some children actually become more emotionally reactive, scatte

During the school year, fitting in two or three sessions a week can feel almost impossible for many families. Summer tends to remove many of those obstacles. In our clinic, we have watched this pattern play out for more than 40 years. Children and teens who begin training during the summer and complete a meaningful number of sessions before school starts again often return in the fall looking noticeably different. More regulated. More settled. Better able to hold focus.

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